Why schools probably aren’t COVID hotspots

Young children are unlikely to spread the virus — but older kids are more at risk, say researchers.

How Parents Can Support Teenagers in the Pandemic College Process

With college admissions significantly altered this year, pay attention to what your child wants and needs.

How to Help Kids Manage Back-to-School Anxiety in the Covid Era

Will I get sick? Will my teachers? How will class be different? We asked psychologists how parents can help their kids navigate returning to school.

How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us

The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities.

It’s Ridiculous to Treat Schools Like Covid Hot Zones

When students head back to class this fall, they may find themselves isolated from each other and wearing masks. This isn’t biosafety—it’s pandemic theater.

Pediatrics Association Slams Trump Argument For Reopening Schools

The question of reopening schools has been a major global issue amid the coronavirus pandemic, with UNESCO reporting that school closures have affected 67.6% of students worldwide.

Remote School Is a Nightmare. Few in Power Care

Government should treat the need to reopen schools as an emergency.

Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought

Americans found out the hard way that education is essential infrastructure.

School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks

When Science looked at reopening strategies from South Africa to Finland to Israel, some encouraging patterns emerged. Together, they suggest a combination of keeping student groups small and requiring masks and some social distancing helps keep schools and communities safe, and that younger children rarely spread the virus to one another or bring it home.

Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders

Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown.

The Case for Reopening Schools

The harm from lost instruction outweighs the Covid-19 risks.

The debate over reopening America’s K-12 schools, explained

Solving the school problem is crucial for parents and kids. Here’s what experts say would help.

The Medical Case for Reopening Schools

We need to reopen our schools—not in spite of the pandemic, because of the pandemic.

These 8 Basic Steps Will Let Us Reopen Schools

If we move too fast, ignore science, or reopen without careful planning, this will backfire.

We Have to Focus on Opening Schools, Not Bars

Resuming classroom instruction is crucial. Infection control inside and outside classrooms can let it happen.

We Should Be Talking More About Opening Schools and Less About Businesses

Education experts (and desperate parents) are begging us to actually, seriously think of the children.

What we’ve learned so far from school reopenings in the US

K-12 school reopenings are going mostly fine. College and university reopenings aren’t.

When Young People Get COVID-19, Infections Soon Rise Among Older Adults

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults were more likely to get infected, but when researchers analyzed cases from June to August, they found that people in their 20s accounted for the largest share of confirmed cases compared to other age groups. And public health experts say this is a worrying trend.

‘This Push to Open Schools Is Guaranteed to Fail’

It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.

The Truth About Kids, School, and COVID-19

We’ve known for months that young children are less susceptible to serious infection and less likely to transmit the coronavirus. Let’s act like it.

Here are the C.D.C. guidelines for students exposed to Covid

The federal government released new recommendations last month for unvaccinated students exposed to the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said those students could remain in school, as long as they are tested for the virus twice in the week after exposure and both tests come back negative.

America shouldn’t be sending unvaccinated kids back to school

On a population-adjusted basis, the weekly average of US children admitted to hospitals with Covid-19 is rising faster than any other age group.

As School Starts Again, Here's How To Keep Kids Safe From COVID

Millions of American kids are headed back to school, this time as a fourth wave of the pandemic builds. We hear what parents should know about keeping them healthy.

How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of 'Crisis And Uncertainty'

To reestablish relationships in the classroom — and help kids cope with the stress and trauma of the past year — mental health experts say educators can start by building in time every day, for every student, in every classroom to share their feelings and learn the basics of naming and managing their emotions. Think morning circle time or, for older students, homeroom.

In Their Own Words: Why Health Experts Say Elementary Schools Should Open

With proper safety measures, doctors and scientists said in a survey, the benefits outweigh the risks.

Kids don’t need Covid-19 vaccines to return to school

The notion is out there that public school students should not return to in-person learning until they’ve been vaccinated. That proposition worries me. Here are five reasons why schools can and should open at 100% capacity before a vaccine for those under age 16 is available.

The Learning Gap Is Getting Worse as Schools Rely on Remote Classes, Especially for Students of Color

The pandemic has forced the most vulnerable students into the least desirable learning situations with inadequate tools and support systems to navigate them...

The Tragedy of the Schools

Many parents are losing faith in their closed public schools—and are looking for alternatives.

What it would really take to reopen American schools

Reopening schools is a huge controversy. It doesn’t have to be.